June 2026 Island Trip – Day 5

After what we call a Farmer’s Breakfast (over easy eggs, chicken sausage breakfast links, and leftover little roast little potatoes, sliced in two and fried with the sausage) my (hero) DH addressed the jacks under Stella. When you permanently park a travel trailer, the tires start to degrade because of the weight of the trailer sits on the same part of the tire in perpetuity, the sun beat down on the tires that are exposed (we covered all the tires with protective covers), and the age of the tire… Even if you tow very little, replace your tires every 7-8 years. Rubber wears out due to age.

So anyways!! A few years ago, with sketchy tires, our AN helped us place bottle jacks under Stella, one under each side of an axel. Come to find out, hydraulic jacks are not meant to be under load for years. What I knew is that one of the ‘curb side’ tires was failing. Stella rested down on the decompressed bottle jacks. This was almost imperceptible from the inside, except her door was being super grumpy. My DH, using an auxiliary bottle jack, lifted up the coach, used shims with the decompress jack, and got Stella true and level. On both sides! I am SO grateful! 💜

We set out on the Island’s Artists’ tour again. It was a delight. After dropping my DH off at the ferry, I caught one more studio, got home, inhaled a little bit of food, and then hopped on the mower for another hour and a half.

Tomorrow with be more mowing before the rain settles in. It’s all about fire suppression.